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Summary: I have a daughter and an enemy on the same planet?
Review: Dr. McCoy is lovable, if you like sarcastic people. In this novel, he has a daughter he never knew about and an enemy. This world is full of perfect people, with a specific genetic code. McCoy needs to help protect his daughter from the officals that might find out about her genetic code. This is a wonderful book and I do recommend it to people who like McCoy. Watch out for the surprise ending. This is just as good as Doctor's Orders.
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Summary: i loved this book
Review: i swear, if u wanna find out more about our favorite doctor, u must read this book!! it is beautifully written and gets into McCoy's mind. it also shows that we are all imperfect in some way or another.
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Summary: McCoy, McCoy Where for Art Thou?
Review: If you love the trio, and wonder about McCoy's past, then this book is a must! Watch Spock and McCoy battle with the words they use so well, while Kirk is unusually confussed. See McCoy do as any father would to protect his little girl, who just happens not to be so little anymore. And see the dynamic trio come together in the face of danger with surprising skill as only they can, while supporting their valued friend.This book is a must for those who love to see the trio in action within another secret that becomes news. I laughed throughout the whole book while getting insight into McCoy's past.
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Summary: McCoy, McCoy Where for Art Thou?
Review: If you love the trio, and wonder about McCoy's past, then this book is a must! Watch Spock and McCoy battle with the words they use so well, while Kirk is unusually confussed. See McCoy do as any father would to protect his little girl, who just happens not to be so little anymore. And see the dynamic trio come together in the face of danger with surprising skill as only they can, while supporting their valued friend. This book is a must for those who love to see the trio in action within another secret that becomes news. I laughed throughout the whole book while getting insight into McCoy's past.
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Summary: McCoy Fans, you must read this book!
Review: Raise your hands if you ever wanted to know about Dr. Leonard McCoy, the man. What's behind the sarcastic facade? Here are the answers to many of your questions. Also, who does the term "The Better Man" refer to? The genetically perfect Empyreans, or the seemingly-perfect man who Leonard idolized as a child, but can no longer stand? Either way, Howard Weinstein's novel shows us that the Better Man, whoever that is, is no better than "garden-variety" humanoids. We also meet Anna, the daughter of an Empyrean leader and McCoy, or at least we think so... She is a teenager with normal teen-aged problems, that are remarkably similar to the ones her "perfect-gened" friends are having. Trekkies! You cannot call yourselves experts until you read this book. If you need any further convincing, which you really shouldn't, that this is an incredible piece of writing, here is an excerpt from Howard Weinstein's "The Better Man": Actually, I can't pick just one passage. I could do the "How may I compare you to a hormone-crazed Vulcan" scene, which is wonderful, but I'd go on for three pages at least. Then, there's the part where Elizabeth tells McCoy he's the father. Of course, there's always the passage where E.L.F. ...oops! I shouldn't give away the entire story. Do yourself a favor. Read it.
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Summary: What I want to know about a book
Review: Review from Kasey Chang, Star Trek Novel Nexus (http://members.aol.com/treknovel).
The book is all McCoy. While there are no obvious villains, the author introduced an old rival (former best friend) and an old flame of McCoy's to keep things interesting. The plot twist in the middle is rather ingenious, but the kidnapping near the end doesn't fit that well into the plot, and wel all know at the end McCoy will perform his miracle. Still, the doctor definitely shines in this novel Not the best of TOS novels, but better than average..
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Summary: Dammit Jim! I'm a doctor, not a miracle worker!
Review: Review from Kasey Chang, Star Trek Novel Nexus (http://members.aol.com/treknovel). The book is all McCoy. While there are no obvious villains, the author introduced an old rival (former best friend) and an old flame of McCoy's to keep things interesting. The plot twist in the middle is rather ingenious, but the kidnapping near the end doesn't fit that well into the plot, and wel all know at the end McCoy will perform his miracle. Still, the doctor definitely shines in this novel Not the best of TOS novels, but better than average..
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Summary: Good story, weird ending.
Review: This book has great merit in that it gives you a look at a rather tender side of McCoy that you know is there but seldom see. This is especially apparent as he fights to save a daughter he didn't know he had. He is thrown on an emotional roller coaster in the first few chapters and it doesn't get any easier by the end of the book. My only problem was that the ending just left me hanging. I wanted to know what happens to Anna. Even so, this book is definitely worth reading. I would also highly recommend Weinstein's book Deep Domain.
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Summary: What I want to know about a book
Review: What I see, and have always seen in Trek, is a basically clean series with noble and good characters. I'm fourteen, and I need influences like that. What I found in this book was that a favorite character of mine has an affair with an alien woman, who has a child, and THEN it turns out that other immoral stuff has happened. I won't spoil it for those of you who will read the book. But what I want to know about a book before reading it is this: Is it good, is it clean, will I enjoy it? While I enjoyed most of the book, (it IS well written) it wasn't very moral. I just want you to know that before you pick it up.
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Summary: Good characterizations but a sham of a plot
Review: When a mystery is central to the plot of a novel - when the plot develops because of the mystery - and then the mystery is shrugged away with barely a murmur at the end, left unsolved - one must suspect that there IS no solution, that the author had no idea who was behind the critical sabotage: that he himself, not any character, is the culprit. I was very much aware of "author intrusion" off and on as I read this book, beginning with the needless rehashing of the series episode "Amok Time" (surely every Star Trek fan *knows* that story, and readers who don't won't care!). But nowhere was I more aware of the author than at the end: I closed the book and said out loud, "What a cheat!" Weinstein never demonstrates that anyone *could* have sabotaged the Federation installation; not only that, but by having the unknown saboteur's programming escape the intense scrutiny of Spock and Scott *even after they knew that sabotage had occurred*, he demeans these characters' skills. The only true reason for the sabotage is (besides creating some tension) to provide a reason for one lone Empyrean's change of heart, and to achieve this single end, Weinstein is (I'm sure unintentionally) disrespectful to Star Trek characters and to the reader's intelligence. This is a contrived novel and one I found very disappointing: I still want to know whodunit and WHY, and I don't believe the author knows.
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